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The Orkney Islands Council seeks to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for construction and related works across 12 separate areas within Orkney and its Islands. The DPS is divided into six distinct lots, each focusing on a specialized area of construction: Lot 1: Electrical Works; Lot 2: Plumbing & Mechanical Works (new and repairs); Lot 3: Groundswork & Landscape (including fencing); Lot 4: Roofing & Cladding; Lot 5: Painting & Decorating; and Lot 6: General Building Works.

Each lot has a maximum value of £2,000,000 GBP over the duration of the DPS contract. The contract will be in effect for 60 months (5 years) with the possibility of renewal for further periods subject to suitability. Selection criteria for awarding contracts within each lot consider factors beyond price alone and are detailed within the procurement documents.

A minimum of five contractors will be selected for each lot based on pre-defined standards outlined in the procurement documentation. Interested contractors are advised to thoroughly review the full procurement documents for specific requirements, evaluation criteria, and application procedures pertaining to each individual lot.

The tender concerns a framework agreement for the procurement, delivery, installation and long‑term operation of multi‑function printers, copiers and scanners for a group of municipalities in Norway. The goal is to establish a uniform, future‑oriented system that guarantees reliable printing, copying and scanning capabilities at all municipal sites while ensuring predictable operation, cost control and centralized oversight. The contract is intended to be fully managed, providing predictable service, timely maintenance, automated supply handling and consistent support throughout its lifespan.

The procurement calls for a comprehensive MFP platform that can be centrally monitored and administered across diverse municipal environments. Existing equipment are largely updated in recent years, so the new machines must integrate seamlessly into the current fleet and be designed for extended use with minimal need for replacement. The system must support secure printing and access management, employing the municipality’s secure print solution and integrating with enterprise identity services. It should also be capable of automated supply monitoring, status reporting, and provide user‑friendly operation that conforms to universal design principles.

All machines must be compatible with the Norwegian ICT infrastructure and support the relevant Microsoft platforms. They must fully support the municipalities’ secure printing framework using YSoft SafeQ, integrate with the municipality’s identity system (AD/Entra ID) and employ RFID card readers for user authentication.

North Lanarkshire Council is seeking a qualified building surveyor to conduct Level 1 visual, non‑intrusive condition surveys for approximately 672 operational property assets within its portfolio of nearly 990 holdings, including business centres, offices, retail units, industrial premises and miscellaneous properties. The contractor will provide a comprehensive visual inspection of each defined building, identify defects, risks and statutory compliance issues, assess asset life expectancy, and produce a prioritised maintenance programme covering years one to five, including an estimation of capital and revenue expenditure required to support future investment decisions.

Deliverables will include a consistent, accurate and actionable dataset that informs the council’s asset management, lifecycle investment, maintenance planning and portfolio optimisation strategies. The contract requires the surveyor to adhere strictly to RICS Building Surveying Standards and Guidance, RICS Surveying Safely, the New Rules of Measurement for cost estimation, the PFI Asset Condition Playbook 2025 and its reporting guidance, the 2025 General Implementation Guidance for asset condition hand‑back surveys, and the Centre of Best Practice specification where applicable.

Forestry and Land Scotland is inviting providers to supply a comprehensive range of environmental surveys that will support the management of the national forest estate. The surveys inform operational decisions, align with the Authority’s mission to steward Scotland’s forests and land for public benefit, and contribute to biodiversity enhancement, tourism growth, and rural economic resilience. The procurement is structured into multiple lots, each covering a specific geographic region or survey discipline, allowing specialists to bid on their area of expertise while ensuring consistent coverage across the entire estate.

The scope of work includes ecological surveys of animal, bird and plant species across five regional lots; habitat walkover surveys in four regions; invasive non‑native species surveys that cover Rhododendron in all regions; national peatland surveys covering depth assessment, condition monitoring and adherence to the Peatland Code; and national archaeological surveys in both walkover and measured forms. Each lot requires field teams skilled in the appropriate scientific and archaeological methods to deliver accurate, region‑specific data that will be used for regulatory compliance, conservation planning, and land management.

All surveys must be conducted in accordance with Forestry and Land Scotland’s environmental and archaeological standards, employing recognized protocols and quality controls.

East Lothian Council is establishing a Dynamic Purchasing System to procure transport services that will support education, social care, and other passenger needs primarily within the council’s area. The system will allow a range of vehicles, including taxis, private hire cars, minibuses, and larger buses, to be contracted, with a specific emphasis on ensuring that those services can accommodate passengers who use wheelchairs. Contracts will be awarded through mini‑competitions and will remain open for renewal after an initial 96‑month period, allowing the council to maintain flexibility for future transport requirements.

The dynamic purchasing system is divided into four distinct lots. The first lot covers multi‑purpose vehicles seating five to eight passengers, including salon cars; the second lot is for wheelchair‑accessible multi‑purpose vehicles with the same seating capacity; the third lot covers minibuses seating nine to sixteen passengers and includes wheelchair‑accessible options; and the fourth lot accommodates vehicles seating more than seventeen passengers. Each lot specifies the same quality and price criteria, where quality receives a 10% weighting and price a 90% weighting, and each provider must demonstrate the technical ability to meet the required vehicle specifications.

Participation is limited to operators holding a current Public Service Vehicle licence or a taxi/Private Hire licence under the Civic Government Act, and each tenderer must provide evidence of minimum insurance levels for employer liability, public liability, and third‑party motor vehicle cover. Operators must also ensure that all staff are properly vetted according to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act, undergo Police Scotland checks, and comply with GDPR, while electronic ordering, invoicing, and payment will be mandatory. All vehicles must be capable of carrying wheelchairs and meet the required insurance and licensing standards.

The Scottish Government is extending its Grant Fund Manager Dynamic Purchasing System, inviting new suppliers to join a framework that will provide ongoing grant fund management services across a range of Scottish grants. The system is intended to cover the full life‑cycle of funding streams, from pre‑award preparation and award administration to post‑award monitoring, reporting and compliance, with no requirement for current suppliers to re‑apply.

Successful participants will be expected to administer and distribute grant funds in alignment with Scottish Government policy, ensure that the full value of available funding is spent within each financial year, provide comprehensive Management Information to the Government, and maintain secure and sensitive handling of all information. Staff delivering the services must be suitably trained and qualified, with arrangements in place to meet confidentiality and data‑protection obligations. Contractual delivery will be organised through electronic ordering, invoicing and payment via PCS‑t or accepted alternative routes, and the public framework will remain open to suppliers until 8 January 2029, with call‑offs issued electronically on an as‑needed basis.

To qualify, suppliers must demonstrate recent experience by supplying two distinct grant‑management examples from the past three years, meet risk‑based insurance requirements covering Employer‑s, Public and Professional Indemnity, and comply with the Government Procurement Agreement. Each service provider must provide detailed examples in the SPD and maintain eligibility until 5 January 2029. All contract participants must also meet defined quality and price criteria, with a quality weighting of 40‑80 % and a price weighting of 20‑60 %. The core technical standard requires that service delivery is fully compliant with Scottish data‑protection and information‑security regulations.

The tender seeks innovative technology solutions to enhance living conditions and quality of life for residents in registered social housing across Scotland. The challenge highlights the prevalence of cold homes, damp, mould, and fuel poverty, and the consequent health and service‑delivery pressures. Cloch Housing Association Ltd. is inviting submissions for systems that enable social landlords to accurately identify where sub‑standard housing conditions and individual vulnerability converge to produce the highest risk of harm, and to translate those insights into focused, actionable interventions.

The procurement calls for software or integrated platforms that combine data analytics, risk assessment, and operational workflow integration. The solution must empower landlords to target remedial work, improve tenant health outcomes, protect homes, and use limited resources efficiently. It should also facilitate timely investigations and repairs that meet statutory timescales while safeguarding tenant privacy. The selected technology must be affordable at the registered social landlord scale, protect privacy, and link insights to actionable repair schedules within statutory deadlines.

The Defence Equipment and Support organisation is seeking quality delivery partner services to support the Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Team’s medical countermeasures programme. The purpose of the contract is to provide assurance, set standards and maintain the safety and efficacy of the medical countermeasures that are stored and supplied to front‑line command. By engaging external qualified and regulatory specialists, the MOD will maintain compliance with Defence, pharmaceutical and UK legislation and avoid non‑compliance and legal risk in the provision of medical countermeasures.

The procurement will supply a suite of independent professional services, including a Qualified Person, a Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance, an independent Responsible Person, and a Regulatory Affairs Consultant. In addition, the contract will cover specialist disciplines that assist with activities such as resilience warehouse facilities, adverse event investigations, drug licence upkeep, stability testing of in‑service inventory, regulatory and technical publications, MHRA audits, batch‑specific variations, transport and disposal, and continuing professional development. These services are intended to keep the authority compliant with Good Manufacturing Practice and Good Distribution Practice while enabling the rapid transition to licensure through early regulatory engagement.

All services must be delivered by organisations with a registered UK legal entity and will operate under a Foundation Level 1 cyber risk profile. The essential technical requirements mandate adherence to Good Manufacturing Practice, Good Distribution Practice and current EU and UK legislation.

Codi Group Ltd. is calling for bids to appoint principal main contractors under a comprehensive Construction Framework that will enable a range of housing development schemes across the United Kingdom. The framework is structured into distinct lots that reflect escalating project scales: development schemes of up to twenty dwellings, between twenty and fifty dwellings, between fifty and one hundred dwellings, and projects exceeding one hundred dwellings, with further separation between the western and eastern regions for the smaller categories. In each case the framework allows the Codi Group, together with its subsidiaries and the designated housing associations of Ateb Group Limited, Tai Hedyn Limited, and United Welsh Housing Association Limited, to award call‑off contracts that will be managed through eTenderWales.

The procurement places a strong emphasis on the quality of performance while also incorporating price considerations, with a scoring system that allocates 60 % to quality questions and 40 % to price criteria. Each lot is renewable for an additional year at the discretion of the Codi Group, ensuring that successful contractors can sustain long‑term delivery relationships following initial award. All submitted tenders must adhere to stringent UK building regulations and relevant industry standards.